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Why am I a magnet for these kinds of people?

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  1. malachite

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    So, I’m at work today and these two valley girl rejects come in and want to do some printing. They want this fancy paper and what not, so I let them know it will be $3.00 a page. So the one says, “Oh my God if we do 10 pages that’s like $300 dollars.”
    Why God???
    :help:
     
    #1 malachite, Jun 18, 2009
  2. Numfarh

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    Because you work in a printshop?
    And you regularly get customers?
    And not all customers are smart?


    Oh and God hates you. The plague of boils is merely hours away.
     
    #2 Numfarh, Jun 18, 2009
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    I once bought 10 gallons of apple cider from a farm store (it was made there on the premises.) The woman who filled my order wrote down a multiplication problem on the back of her order pad, with the price of the cider per gallon, and the number of gallons (10). She multiplied it up, came up with $15, but decided the price wasn't correct, so she wrote the problem out again, and solved it again, and decided that it must be right. So she charged me $15. I was pretty surprised, but I see that sort of thing happening more and more.
     
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    Wouldn't it be $30 if they printed 10 pages of the $3.00/page paper?
     
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    How cute :slight_smile:

    Recently I was at a store and they were freaking out because they entered "$5" instead of "$10" in the register and couldn't figure out the change. I'm like "just add $5 to what it says"

    I was greeted with blank stares.

    Another time at Tim Hortons the girl (she was new) was so proud about counting out the change "I got it right again!" she said.

    Her supervisor looked over her work and was like "Um... no, you didn't"
     
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    Well, i said to martin "You should post 6 more times and then lock the thread so its stuck at 666"

    Guess what?

    The thread was at 606 when i said this to him.

    Fail Greggers. Fail. Just...Fail.
     
    #6 Greggers, Jun 18, 2009
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    Was it too late to delete the post?
     
    #7 Kenko, Jun 18, 2009
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    We live in a computer world. People don't know how to do simple math these days or count change! Its pathetic.
     
    #8 beckyg, Jun 18, 2009
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    Yeah I know. I taught the girl at Starbucks how to count change when the computer was messed up. She thought it was neat "trick". The next time I went in there she told told me how helpful it was.
     
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    haha!

    math. its like magic!
     
    #10 mattypants, Jun 18, 2009
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    Mine is because i have a learning disability when it comes to math, so i hope that counts for something xD
     
    #11 Greggers, Jun 18, 2009
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    I'm pretty sure there were always people who couldn't count change or do simple math. It's not like computers are entirely to blame.

    I'm just bitter because I'm good at geometry but not subtraction. :frowning2:
     
    #12 Markio, Jun 18, 2009
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    God damn, that was beautiful. Absolutely brilliant <3
     
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    What makes me sad is that these people get jobs in the first place. In the late '90s, I had a high school job at a grocery store, and part of my job application was a two-page math test that if I couldn't achieve a satisfactory score, I would not be hired, plain and simple. Later, when I was moved to cashier, the first thing my training went over was how to count change properly, by hand, and I was encouraged to do so at every transaction, even if the register had already computed the total.

    To this day when I get back wrinkled, dog-eared money that the clerk had trouble counting out, it makes me want to reach over the counter and shake until their brain starts working again.
     
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    Oh God it gets better.

    Today they come back to pick up their stuff. We have timers we use to keep track of internet time. There was one sitting next to me, so I reset the time and threw it with the other. The lady says,
    "Oh my God! Are you timing this conversation? Am I being charged by the minute?"

    I had to leave so I could laugh.
     
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    When i worked in an idependent shop.

    I did all the sum's in my head, and only typed the items price in the 'til.

    My friend who had worked there several months longer than me, kept messing up the 'till.

    And was like...
    "ohkay...it's a cool lighter...but it doesn't cost £50."

    :')
     
    #16 -Michael-, Jun 19, 2009
  17. Legnaj

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    There is a time and place for everything...it was your time to say yes :cP
     
    #17 Legnaj, Jun 19, 2009
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    Meh. I'm TERRIBLE when it comes to anything mathematical. So I guess I'm part of the pathetic crowd. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

    I'm much more of an english person anyway.
     
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    Good God this is no joke. They came back again today. My shop is located in a Hotel.
    They just want some copies this time. When I give them their total they ask:
    "We already checked out, can still put this on our room?"
     
    #19 malachite, Jun 20, 2009
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    Correct me if i'm wrong, but when you pay with a credit card at a restaurant you pay, and then you get the bill back and you write the amount for tip and then they recharge it but they don't take your card again and you usually just leave, correct?
    They could have had the same thought about charging to the room.
    don't be so hard on them.
     
    #20 littledinosaurs, Jun 20, 2009
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